Hallett Academy

As an intimate K-5 school in DENVER, Colorado, Hallett Academy caters to 250 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C. Enrollment runs roughly 34% below the state mean of about 379.

School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C runs 198 schools in total, collectively educating 90,471 students. Hallett Academy is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hallett Academy records that the largest single group is Black, at 62% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 20% Hispanic, 9% White, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 9% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Hallett Academy lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Denver County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hallett Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.2%, the actual is 17.1%, a residual of -0.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Denver County put the typical household earns roughly $94,718 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Denver County's 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), Hallett Academy is one campus in the mix.

McAuliffe International School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hallett Academy comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 56.6%.

Hallett Academy operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 245 students in 2018 compared to 250 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 69% to 62%.

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